How well do you know what is happening inside your organization?
You receive reports. You attend meetings. You talk with managers and employees. You look at results.
All of this helps you understand your organization.
But there is something important to remember.
Each person sees only part of what is happening.
A department may be doing its job well, but the organization may still be having difficulties. A project may be falling behind even though everyone is working hard. A decision may make sense to one team but create difficulties for another.
How can you see what is happening across the whole organization?
That is why we created the EdgeQuest Global Systemic Organizational Health Index (SOHI).
What is the Organizational Health Assessment?
The SOHI is an assessment that helps you take a closer look at how your organization works.
It asks questions about nine important areas of your organization.
The purpose is not to judge you or your employees. It is to help you notice things you may not have considered before.
You may discover that some parts of your organization are working well. You may also notice areas where people, decisions, responsibilities, or processes are not working together as expected.
The assessment gives you a starting point for asking better questions.
What Does the Assessment Look At?
The assessment examines nine areas. Each area tells us something different about how an organization operates.
1. Ownership & Authority
Do people know what they are responsible for? Do they have the authority to make the decisions needed to do their jobs?
3. Structural Alignment
Are departments and teams organized to work toward the same goals? Or does the way the organization is structured make their work more difficult?
5. Data & Visibility
Do leaders have the information they need? Does that information show what is actually happening, or are important details missing?
7. Innovation & Risk
Can the organization try new ideas while understanding and managing the risks involved?
2. Governance Health
How are important decisions made? Are there clear ways to guide decisions, review them, and make sure they are carried out?
4. Strategy Execution
When leaders decide what the organization should accomplish, can people turn those decisions into action?
6. Organizational Dynamics
How do people and teams work together? Do their relationships, habits, and ways of communicating help or hinder their work?
8. Process Health
Are the steps people follow to get work done clear and useful? Or do those steps create delays, confusion, or unnecessary work?
9. Leadership & Oversight
Do leaders understand what is happening throughout the organization? Can they recognize when something needs attention and help people respond?
Why Look at All Nine Areas Together?
Imagine that a project is falling behind schedule.
One person may believe the problem is poor planning. Another may believe employees need more training. Someone else may think the technology is not working properly.
Any of these explanations might be correct.
But what if the real difficulty is that people do not know who has the authority to make certain decisions?
Or what if two departments are working toward different priorities without realizing it?
Looking at only one part of the organization might not reveal those conditions.
Looking at the nine areas together can help you see connections that are easy to miss when each area is examined separately.
What Might You Learn?
The assessment may help you:
· Recognize strengths within your organization.
· Notice areas that deserve a closer look.
· See where responsibilities or decisions may be unclear.
· Consider how different departments and teams affect one another.
· Identify questions worth exploring before making changes.
The assessment does not promise to uncover every issue or provide every answer.
Its purpose is to help you develop a clearer picture of your organization so that you can decide what deserves further attention.
Ready to Explore Your Organization?
You do not need to have a problem or a crisis to take the assessment.
You may be planning for growth, preparing for change, considering an important decision, or simply wanting to understand your organization better.
The assessment is an opportunity to look at your organization from several different perspectives.